REPORT:Sitting just as likely to give you cancer as smoking

[Juliuscaesar]

(CBS 5) – Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.

Dr. Coven is a cardiologist. He says several new studies show prolonged sitting is now being linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and even early death.

“The fact of being sedentary causes factors to happen in the body that are very detrimental,” said Dr. Coven.

Dr. Coven says when you sit for long periods of time; your body goes into storage mode,

When that happens, it stops working as effectively as it should. What’s worse, the more hours a day you sit, the greater your likelihood of developing one or more of these diseases, just as with smoking.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/06/08/healthwatch-sitting-vs-smoking/

 

[squallumz]

see. and pork is healthy. pfft!

 

[Ace Bandage]

I heard that breathing and prolonged exposure to nitrogen and oxygen also cause cancer.

 

[Atar554]

Swallowing small amounts of saliva over long periods of time causes stomach cancer and impotence.

 

[Mauser98k]

yeah, we know doctors. everything will give us cancer. fuck off.

 

[PirateKing]

"Bad news....Are you sitting down for this? Well you shouldn't be."

Just another bullshit study to secure funding. Who cares?

 

[Jon S.]

Fact of the matter, though I hate smoking and never have done so, the leading cause of death is....LIVING...and there simply isn't any getting around that fact.


That being said...don't smoke and get some exercise for God's sake! :1orglaugh

 

[PlumpRump]

Sitting for extended periods of time can also help one to develop deep venous thrombosis, or DVT, blood clots that can dislodge and travel as embolisms to the heart, lungs and brain, among other areas, which can be fatal. "DVT kills more people every year than AIDS, breast cancer, and motor vehicle accidents combined." So, chew on that for a second, if you will.

 

[Will E Worm]

Instead of doing useless "studies" like these they need to start curing diseases. That would be a good idea.